Passage 7

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But the One who is in all of them is God Himself. So all forms too can see Him, the flowers as well; but the marks of our Kṛṣṇa are quite distinct.

He who is dark, He with lotus eyes, He who showers the nectar of grace upon all, He with the peacock feather spread on His crown, One whose face shines with a smile: has such a One stolen the treasure of the maidens' honour? O jasmines! Is He not hidden in the shelter of your bushes? Do tell us!

That is, for the Gopīs of that day there was God alone everywhere, God alone in every object too. As Andhoni said, God is the embodiment of the full. So, God being the embodiment of the full, in what object is He not? In what object is He? No one has the authority to settle that. He is in all. So we simply must respect everyone. We simply must trust everyone. We simply must love everyone. This principle of Prema is not merely about expecting the fruit of some object. Our Prema: in this world we must not love in order to gain some result or other. We must love for the sake of Prema.

Suguṇa, who had Kṛṣṇa's darśan in the lamp

In just this way, a new daughter-in-law came to that cowherd village. In those days it was the custom that all the young women of the cowherd village, every one, would come at dusk and light their lamps from the lamp set in front of Yaśodā's house. That is, they were wealthy; and not only that, in that wealthy man's house the very embodiment of Śrī had been born. Kṛṣṇa, the embodiment of the eight kinds of wealth, had been born. If we light our lamp at such people's house and bring it home, the eight kinds of wealth will grow in our home too: that was their hope. They would light their lamps at that house and bring them home. But the new daughter-in-law's parents-in-law, and her husband too, would not allow this.